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Ms. Brennan is a partner with Hudson Cook. She represents FinTechs, banks, small business financing companies and other financial services companies navigate the multitude of regulatory requirements that apply to their businesses. A Partner in the Maryland office, Ms. Brennan guides businesses through the complexities of compliance in consumer and commercial lending, focusing on providing business-friendly advice that can be actioned by clients in real time. A large part of her practice involves advising investors in financial services along all asset classes, including personal loans, auto lending, debt settlement, small business receivables, charged off debt, mortgage loans, earned wage access, real property option contracts, and other innovative financial assets. Clients rely on her responsiveness, deep legal knowledge and her ability to simplify and solve complex regulatory challenges. By partnering with her, businesses can maintain focus on growth and innovation while mitigating the risks associated with legal and regulatory pitfalls, ultimately fostering long-term success and compliance. With more than 20 years of legal experience, Ms. Brennan is a distinguished leader in the field of regulatory compliance in financial services. Since 2022, she has been ranked in Chambers FinTech Guide since 2020 for FinTech Legal: Payments & Lending – USA. She has been named in The Best Lawyers in America for Financial Services Regulation Law since 2021. She is a Fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, a member of the Governing Committee of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law and regularly speaks at financial services events such as Lend360 and the ABA Business Law Section. Her articles and presentations on fintech regulation and consumer finance compliance are widely recognized in the legal community.

Mr. Fallahi is a dual-licensed Attorney and Certified Public Accountant with decades of experience in U.S. and international tax matters. His practice focuses on tax controversy, digital asset taxation, offshore compliance, and complex cross-border reporting. Mr. Fallahi represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities in audits, voluntary disclosures, and penalty mitigation matters. In the digital asset space, his work includes cryptocurrency and NFT taxation, gain and loss reconstruction, valuation and substantiation challenges, and emerging issues such as the tax treatment of stolen or lost digital assets.He has extensive experience advising on FBAR and FATCA compliance, including matters involving undisclosed foreign accounts across multiple jurisdictions. Mr. Fallahi holds an Executive Certificate in Blockchain Technologies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has completed executive programs at Harvard Law School. He is a member of the American Academy of Attorney-CPAs and has presented on tax controversy, professional ethics, and attorney-client privilege in tax practice.

Mr. Forester practices in the areas of tax and trust law, personal injury and criminal law. He also testified as an expert witness in various state and federal courts in California.  Mr. Forester is a Certified Public Accountant, Attorney, and Economist. As a CPA , he provides accounting, financial, and business valuation services. He received his M.A. in Economics and Finance, his Ph.D. Candidacy degree in Economics from UCLA, and his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.  Mr. Forester is an adjunct professor at California State University (CSU) and has teaching credentials in Accounting and Economics. He has taught tax, accounting, business law, statistics, and computer courses to graduate and undergraduate students. Mr. Forester is a Judicial Arbitrator of the Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County as well as a mandatory fee arbitration for the State Bar of California.

Mr. Gottlieb is a partner with Morrison Cohen. His practice focuses on regulatory enforcement, litigation, and arbitration relating to cryptocurrency, securities, commodities, futures and derivatives, and structured finance. Mr. Gottlieb principally defends companies and individuals in the digital assets space, in investigations and enforcement actions conducted by governmental or self-regulatory agencies. He also regularly advises U.S. and foreign companies on blockchain and cryptocurrency law relating to litigation and regulatory risk issues.

He is ranked in Chambers Band 1 for his digital assets disputes practice, and in Band 3 for his blockchain practice more generally. He was also named to The National Law Journal’s inaugural list of Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Fintech Trailblazers. Mr. Gottlieb has been widely published and quoted in the media for his cryptocurrency and blockchain expertise, including for CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fortune, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, Law360, The Real Deal, Forbes, Coindesk, a one-on-one “fireside chat” with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, and many more. Mr. Gottlieb is also the principal author of the Morrison Cohen Cryptocurrency Litigation Tracker, a publicly-available, comprehensive resource that follows regulatory actions and pronouncements, private litigation, and other events of interest in the cryptocurrency space. In each regulatory enforcement matter, he brings a practical, business-friendly approach to protecting his client’s economic and reputational interests. When necessary, Mr. Gottlieb is fully ready to litigate, and has done so – for example, winning dismissal of an SEC case in federal district court, a victory later sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States. In his litigation practice, he regularly defends securities issuers, trading companies, cryptocurrency companies, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, real estate entities, banks, hedge funds, private equity funds and individuals in a host of different areas, including securities, EB5 financing, real estate, structured transactions, partnership disputes and intellectual property. Prior to joining Morrison Cohen, Mr. Gottlieb was an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. 

Mr. Neumeister is a partner with Neumeister & Associates. He is a well-educated and experienced forensic expert and consultant in accounting and financial advisory services. Small organizations, startups, holding entities, high-net-worth individuals, and middle market companies, directly and through their retained counsel, have relied upon Mr. Neumeister to identify problems, uncover frauds, improve efficiencies, and initiate and defend against litigation. Over his 22 years of professional experience, he has worked in firms ranging in size from large international entities to smaller regional practices. Mr. Neumeister has been designated as an expert in multiple cases and has provided valuable deposition testimony for his clients. He has provided litigation advisory services to clients spanning a breadth of industries including construction, entertainment, health care, investments, information technology, professional services, retail, oil and gas, real estate, education, food and beverage, transportation, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. He has provided business valuations for litigation and non-litigation purposes. Mr. Neumeister has also managed the financial due diligence process for both buy and sell transactions. Through the use of sophisticated analytic solutions, investigative techniques, and an understanding of accounting, he has found effective solutions for a range of clients’ problems including those related to tax strategies, operational efficiencies, and internal control.

Mr. Amir is co-chair of the Westchester County Bar Association’s Section on Real Estate, Construction and Land Use, a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Sections on Real Property Law, and Local and State Government Law, and sits on the Legal Advisory Committee of the Associated General Contractors of New York State. Jacob is also Chair of a lower Westchester, New York Zoning Board of Appeals. He represents property owners, developers, financial institutions and other stakeholders on all real estate, construction projects and business transactions in the Hudson Valley and New York City, and in litigation in the federal and state courts in New York. Jacob earned his J.D. degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was a Jacob Burns medal recipient and editor of the Moot Court Honor Society, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from New York University.

Mr. Dexter focuses on complex, real-estate, and commercial litigation. He also serves as an outside general counsel to businesses, advising them on various legal issues, including laws relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the CARES Act and its Paycheck Protection Program. He was co-counsel of record in Manning v. Merrill Lynch, in which the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously in his clients’ favor. Prior to the grant of certiorari, Mr. Dexter was the primary brief writer in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Those underlying motions, made by several of the country’s largest financial institutions, were resolved entirely in favor of his clients. In 2018 and 2019, Mr. Dexter secured reimbursement of substantial attorneys’ fees under contractual fee-shifting provisions; reimbursement of attorneys’ fees as frivolous-litigation sanctions; multiple post-judgment awards enforcing his clients’ judgments and court orders; spoliation sanctions against litigants who destroyed evidence, including an adverse-inference charge that promptly resolved his client’s case favorably; significant insurance coverage settlements; and favorable summary-judgment decisions, including a decision that clarifies the scope of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act in real-estate transactions. A 2009 graduate of Tulane University, cum laude, and from Temple University School of Law, cum laude, in 2012, Mr. Dexter was a member of the Temple Law Review and has been published in multiple law reviews.

Professor Wetmore joined Albany Law School in August of 2022 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He teaches Evidence, Criminal Law, and Trial Practice. He previously taught at Albany Law School as an adjunct professor. Prior to joining Albany Law School, Professor Wetmore served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Albany County District Attorney’s Office, where he worked as both a trial and appellate prosecutor. In all, he has practiced in state and local trial courts, intermediate appellate courts, and the New York Court of Appeals. Professor Wetmore is also regularly asked to serve as critiquing faculty for the New York Prosecutor’s Training Institute and the New York State Bar Association’s Trial Academy where he provides feedback to newly admitted attorneys learning trial skills. A 2014 graduate of Albany Law School, Professor Wetmore was an active competitor in the Anthony V. Cardona ’70 Moot Court Program. He is a former winner of both the Donna Jo Morse Negotiations Competition and Client Counseling Competition; the latter of which he has assisted coaching since 2014. Professor Wetmore is also the current faculty advisor to the law school’s Karen C. McGovern Senior Prize Trial Competition.